Rolle Laukkarinen on Nostr: It's funny to think that I named the instance mementomori.social, and now we have ...

It's funny to think that I named the instance mementomori.social, and now we have around a thousand users, including companies, politicians, organizations, publishers, authors, and more. The name came from my stoic side, and I wanted something unique, like Mastodon.

I could have launched the instance with a name like "newsocial" or "socialnetwork", something more appealing and generic. I could have even built a custom UI to make it more "mainstream-friendly", similar to Mastodon Bird UI. But I decided not to.

I kind of like it this way. I wanted people to have that reaction, "What is mementomori.social?". I like that it's a bit obscure and different. Still, it feels strange when a really prominent person posts under this domain. It's cool though, definitely something to be happy about. Maybe I'm being too modest about it all.

Thoughts about the name, in Finnish or English? How do you approach it? What are the pros and cons? Not that I would change it, because a) I like it, and b) it would be difficult or even impossible technically.

#MementoMoriSocial